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Although Yale took the lion's share of the places in the recent Intercollegiate Invitation meet at Annapolis, the Crimson Natators won a mythical second, with one first, three seconds, a third, and a fourth. Captain Fran Powers accounted for the first with his victory the 220, while Hill Dracker and Bob White accounted for the seconds in the backstroke and 300 yard medley, respectively. Powers' time was 2:13:8. Bus Curwen took a fourth in the 440 in 5:05, and the 440 relay team placed third behind Yale and Princeton. Shaw McCutcheon qualified for the dive finals...
...moving ever closer toward the "collaboration" that Adolf Hitler wants. The Marshal appointed a new Ministry in which the name of no enemy of collaboration appeared, a new five-man Cabinet top-heavy with portfolios for the man who has taken over the task of arranging collaboration, Admiral Jean François Darlan. The Admiral is now Premier, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of the Navy, Minister of the Interior, and the Marshal's designated successor...
...Without a navy," Admiral Jean Fran-gois Darlan once said, quoting Richelieu, "one can neither carry on a war nor profit by a peace." Last week the British Navy rode the Mediterranean and the Italian Navy was afraid to poke a bowsprit out of port. How nice it would be, Benito Mussolini must have thought wistfully, if the three western Mediterranean powers got together somehow and drove the British out of Mare Nostrum...
...Captain Fran Powers of Harvard jumped to an early lead in the individual scoring race by winning both the 220 and 100-yard free style races. These two firsts gave him a total of ten points. Joe McKinley of Columbia, with a first, a third, and a membership on a winning relay team, amassed eight points. Tied with him for second place is Bus Curwen, Harvard Sophomore, who garnered a first and a second...
...Fran Simpson, Bryan Smith, and Norm Neagle sparked the victors' attack, scoring a total of three goals among themselves...